Example sentences for: banished

How can you use “banished” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Hindus banished time altogether by calling it unreal.

  • Each year since 1976, they have published a List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use or General Uselessness, and each year news media across the continent gleefully and unthinkingly report their edicts—which this year included the fairly innocuous verbs skyrocket and spearhead .

  • During the Cultural Revolution, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were banned and many musicians banished to the countryside for “re-education.”

  • A pious Muslim, puritanical in both clothes and personal tastes, he banished music from the court and burned the portraits of princes as breaches of the Islamic taboo on graven images.

  • He banished the sentimental, "penseroso" poses and the comforting twilit faces favored by the fashionable portrait painters he competed with.


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